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39 guides published. 12 visits a month to show for it

This review is about who your website brings in. We went through the site, your search rankings and your reviews. The main findings: you've published 39 real, specific guides, roof types, EV chargers, grants, storm resistance, and only 14 searches rank anywhere, bringing in 12 visits a month total. Your EV charger buying guide alone targets five real searches worth 1,300 a month combined, and none of them are in the top 20 yet. Your one working ranking, "solar panels sligo", sits right at the position-10 edge of page one. The site itself is in good shape: a real photo of you and your van, a working review carousel with a genuine testimonial. This isn't a design problem. It's all detailed below, with what to do about each one.

"Solar panels sligo"
10th
Your one ranking, right on the edge of page one.
Blog posts published
39
Real, specific guides. Only 14 rank for anything.
EV charger searches ranking top 20
0 of 5
1,300 a month combined, one guide already built.
Total monthly Google visits
12
Trending up, still a fraction of the content built.
01 The rankings

One ranking is right on the edge of page one. Five more are close behind

Semrush shows 14 real keywords for this site, out of 39 published guides. "Solar panels sligo" sits at position 10, carrying every one of your 12 monthly visits. Your EV charger buying guide is doing real work behind it, five distinct searches, all on that one post, none inside the top 20 yet.

What people GooglePeople / monthYour situation
solar panels sligo14010th. Every visit the site gets.10th
home car charger32020th, from the EV charger guide.20th
solar panel roof26012th, from the roof-types guide.12th
car charger ireland32031st, same EV guide.31st
best home ev charger17029th, same EV guide.29th
electric car chargers ireland32050th, same EV guide.50th

The EV charger guide alone is aimed at 1,300 real searches a month, and it already has enough strength to sit inside the top 50 for all five without any of them breaking through yet. That's a page proving it can compete, not a page starting from nothing.

Bottom line: The content is written and Google is already reading it. It just hasn't earned enough strength yet to reach page one.
02 The specifics

What's working, and what's holding the rest back

The site itself is in good shape. What's missing is the steady push that turns 39 posts into 39 rankings instead of 14.

Weak
39 posts published, 14 keywords ranking
Most of the content on the site has never picked up a ranking at all. That's not unusual for a young blog, it's a sign the posts need internal links, freshening, and time, not a sign anything is wrong with them.
Fragile
Your only working ranking sits right on the page-one edge
10th place for "solar panels sligo" is close enough that small, steady work could push it onto page one, and far enough that it could just as easily slip back if nothing changes.
Hidden
Your review count never appears as a number
The homepage already shows a real 5-star graphic and a genuine quote from a named customer, which is good. The actual figure, 5.0 stars from 10 Google reviews, doesn't appear anywhere as text.
Dated
The footer copyright still says 2025
One year out of date. Small on its own, but worth tidying up alongside everything else.
Worth noticing

This is not a design problem, it is steady monthly work. The photography, the reviews and the content itself are already doing their job. What moves the numbers from here is strengthening the posts that are close, the EV charger guide especially, rather than writing new ones.

Bottom line: The writing is done. The next stage is strengthening what's already there, not making more of it.
03 Done for you

The fixes, already written out

Each fix below is ready to hand to whoever manages the site.

Fix 1 · New text for your Google listing
This is what people see when Colum Gallagher Electrical & Solar comes up on Google today, next to what it should say. The current version is accurate but doesn't mention your review record.
What Google shows now
https://www.columgelectrical.com
Colum Gallagher Electrical & Solar | Solar Panels Sligo
We at Colum Gallagher Electrical & Solar are your local specialists in Solar Panel systems and EV charger installation. Contact us today about a free consultation & quote for your home, farm or business!
What it should show
https://www.columgelectrical.com
Solar Panel & EV Charger Installers Sligo | Colum Gallagher
Solar PV and EV charger installation for homes, farms and businesses across Sligo. 5.0 stars from 10 Google reviews. Free consultation and quote.
Fix 2 · Strengthen the posts closest to breaking through
These two posts already rank somewhere in the top 50 for real searches. Strengthening them, more detail, internal links from other posts, updated figures, is the fastest way to move rankings that already exist rather than build new ones.
/post/top-home-ev-chargers-in-ireland-ultimate-2026-buyer-s-guide carries 5 real searches worth 1,300 a month combined, best position 20th. Link to it from your other EV-related posts and add real pricing examples.
/post/best-roof-types-for-solar-panels-in-ireland carries 2 searches worth 370 a month, best position 12th, closest to page one of anything on the site.
Fix 3 · The remaining quick fixes
Smaller, but each one is a real, confirmed issue on the live site.
Update the footer copyright from 2025 to 2026
Show "5.0 stars from 10 Google reviews" as a number next to the existing star graphic and quote
04 The plan

What to do and when

Start at the top. The bottom block is the steady work that turns the content you've already written into rankings.

Today
about 20 minutes total
Update the footer copyright to 2026.
5 min
Add "5.0 stars from 10 Google reviews" next to the existing star graphic.
10 min
Swap in the new Google listing text from Fix 1.
10 min
This week
about half a day
Link the EV charger guide from every other EV-related post on the site.
1 hr
Add real pricing examples and updated figures to the EV charger guide.
2 hrs
This month
the growth work
Strengthen the roof-types guide per Fix 2. Already 12th, the closest post to page one.
half day
Pick 3-4 more existing posts each month to strengthen, rather than writing new ones, until the ratio of ranking posts to published posts catches up.
ongoing
05 What it adds up to

Run your own numbers on it

Your EV charger and roof guides add up to

1,670 searches every month.

0 visits currently arrive from either cluster.

Both already rank somewhere between position 12 and 50, not from a standing start.

39 posts is more content than most installers ever publish, and only 14 of them have picked up a ranking. That's not wasted work, it's work that hasn't been pushed over the line yet. You know your average job value on a solar or EV charger enquiry, and what your close rate looks like once someone calls. That's the sum worth running on your side.

Bottom line: You've built the content. The next stage is pushing the closest posts over the line, not writing more.
Why sooner beats later

133 referring domains already point at columgelectrical.com, real authority for a young site, and both your keyword count and traffic are trending up. That momentum is easiest to build on now, while it's already moving, rather than after it stalls.

Whether you tackle this yourself or hand it to someone else
I'm happy to spend 15 minutes walking you through the report so you know which changes will actually move the needle first. Bring whoever manages your website if you like, and if you want, we'll put the first fixes live while we're on. You keep everything in this report either way.
Book the walkthrough
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Dylan Fahy, All Day Solar Agency. I design websites and handle SEO for solar installers across Ireland. Everything above comes from your live site, your public reviews and search data from July 2026.